Journal
CHEMICAL RESEARCH IN TOXICOLOGY
Volume 33, Issue 2, Pages 576-583Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.9b00410
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- Health and Labor Science Research Grants from the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare of the Japanese Government
- Practical Research Project for Life-Style Related Diseases including Cardiovascular Diseases and Diabetes Mellitus from the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development
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An electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) is a product used to smoke aerosol by heating a solution of e-liquid that consists of propylene glycol (PG) and glycerol (GLY) containing nicotine and flavors. In this study, thermal decomposition products generated from three brands of e-cigarettes were determined at various electric power levels. When using neat PG or GLY instead of e-liquid, propylene oxide was detected only in the gas phase from PG and not detected from GLY. In contrast, glycidol was detected only from GLY and not from PG. Almost all of the glyoxal and acrolein was detected from GLY, but formaldehyde and methyl glyoxal were detected from both PG and GLY. Using commercially available e-liquids, the same results were obtained. Nearly all chemical compounds generated from e-cigarettes have a carbon number of 3 or less except for nicotine and flavors. We measured chemical compounds generated from e-cigarettes at various electric power levels (1-85 W). At an electric power of 10 W, the generation of chemical compounds was very low; however, when the electric power exceeded 40 W, it increased exponentially. As thermal decomposition products of e-liquid, acetaldehyde, acrolein, and propylene oxide mainly occur as gaseous matter, while glyoxal, methylglyoxal, and glycidol mainly occur as particulate matter. Formaldehyde exits in both gaseous and particulate matter forms. Thermal decomposition products can be divided into three groups: thermal decomposition products originating from PG and GLY, those originating from other sources, and those directly generated. Concentrations of these thermal decomposition products were mostly higher than those in traditional cigarettes. In particular, thermal decomposition products generated from one of the studied e-cigarettes were very high; e.g., formaldehyde reached 4400 mu g/15 puffs at 50 W. E-cigarette users must know that hazardous substances are generated even within the recommended electric power limits.
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